美网女单冠军战启示录
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“压力是一种特权，懂得调节的人才能当冠军。” 最近，我观看了小威廉姆斯的比赛，她摘得个人职业生涯的第五个美国网球公开赛女单桂冠。这让我不禁想起比利•简•金对赢得比赛给予的建议。周日进行的这场比赛中，威廉姆斯与维多利亚•阿扎伦卡鏖战近三小时。前两盘，威廉姆斯几乎无法摆脱困境，双发失误和非受迫性失误不断。显然，场上恶劣的大风天气对她造成了干扰。 这个时候，一位冠军要怎样调整自我，渡过难关，夺得胜利？今年6月，《财富》（Fortune）在伦敦召开最有影响力女性大会上，我曾经采访了金夫人。40年前，她四次获得美国网球公开赛女单冠军。在那次采访中，金夫人分享了自己的经验心得。她在下面给出的这些建议不仅适用于网球运动，也适用于商业和我们的日常生活。 1、把握自己的感觉。“谁都有走背运的时候。以我所吸取的教训，最重要的是承认现状。”十年前的一场温布尔登比赛中，到了局点的关键时刻，金夫人要面朝着皇室VIP观众席发球。她回忆说：“当时，我双手发抖，膝盖直打哆嗦。最后，我告诉自己：‘我太紧张了，我得准备抛球。’这么一说完，我立刻感觉好了，因为它平复了紧张情绪，就像是说：‘我出了问题。’你必须把握住自己的感觉。我做到了，所以赢得了局点。这是次了不起的胜利。” 2、坚持解决问题。“一场比赛里，有75%的时间你不会打到网球。冠军会比其他的选手更好地利用那75%的时间。他们更坚强。这是种情感上的坚强，不是精神上的。人人都会说：‘他们是铁石心肠。’精神层面是你所思所想，情感层面是你感觉体会。感到紧张的时候，大多数人都会崩溃，因为我们就是这么感觉的。你必须坚持拿出对策解决问题。如果你犯了错，就接受这个信息。我不管它叫失败，我叫它反馈。我们失败了，实际上是一种反馈。” 3、知道赢球的原因。“我设法让人们专心弄明白自己为什么会赢。比赛结束后，我会问一个下场的年轻人：‘为什么你赢了？’和追究输的原因相比起来，我在赢的方面花了更多的时间，因为它可以累积信心，人得了解自己的实力。如果我可以让一个人明白为什么他会赢一场比赛，激发他获胜的是什么因素，他赢的几率就大得多。” |
"Pressure is a privilege. Champions adjust." Watching Serena Williams score her fifth US Open women's singles title last evening, I couldn't stop thinking of Billie Jean King's advice on winning. During the first two sets of Sunday's nearly three-hour thriller vs. Victoria Azarenka, Williams could hardly get out of her own way, committing double faults and unforced errors as nasty wind gusts visibly rattled her. How does a champion adjust—and pull out the victory? Here's wisdom that King, who won the women's singles title at the US Open four times 40 years ago, shared in an interview that I did with her in June at Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in London. King's advice is as applicable to business--and life--as it is to tennis: 1. Own your feelings. "Everybody chokes. The most important thing that I learned is to admit what's going on." At one critical moment at Wimbledon decades ago, King was serving at game point in front of the Royal box. "My hands were shaking. My knees were knocking. Finally, I said to myself, 'I am so nervous. I'm about ready to throw up.' As soon as I said that, I was fine--because it defused it. It's like saying, 'I have a problem.' You have to take ownership of your feelings. I did, and I won the point. It was huge." 2. Stay in the solution. "In a match, 75% of the time, you're not hitting a tennis ball. The champions use that 75% better than anybody else. And they're stronger emotionally. Emotionally, not mentally. Everyone says, 'Oh, they're mentally tough.' Mental is what you think; emotional is what you feel. Most of us break down when we get nervous, because of what we're feeling. You have to stay in the solution. When you commit an error, you take in the information. I call it, not failure. I call it feedback. When we fail, it's really feedback." 3. Know why you win. "I try to get people to concentrate on why they win. I'll ask a young person when they come off the court, 'Why did you win?' I'll spend a lot more time on that than why they lost because it starts to build up the self-confidence that you need to understand your strengths. If I can get someone to understand why they win and what makes them tick, their chances of winning are so much greater." |
